BUXTON, N.C. – A powerful Nor’easter off the Carolinas Saturday is giving weary Outer Banks residents more anxious moments as the Atlantic Ocean surges inland amid heavy rains.

It's just the first stop on the storm's multiple-day journey north along the Atlantic Seaboard, as the storm will energize on Sunday and threaten several states across nearly 500 miles of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast with major coastal flooding and damaging wind gusts.

Steady rains are already soaking the Carolina beaches on Saturday morning, with blustery winds set to increase in gusts to 35-50 mph, according to the FOX Forecast Center. The persistent onshore winds are bringing yet another round of heavy surf, triggering 2-4 feet of coastal flooding to areas along the Outer Banks still reeling from multiple hig

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